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...alive. For [[Serial Killer]], Pressured means the role doesn't function at all.

...if the clues offered to the player are insufficiently clear. In addition, all triggers that change a role's Win Condition are considered Bastard. [[Nurse]], [[Deputy]], and all other passive [[Backup]] roles are Triggered roles. An [[Innocent Child]] may have a trigger. An example of a Theme Bastard Tr

...setup with the [[Innocent Child|IC]] mechanic and a high density of power roles. ...ill be given to a random player who wanted to be the IC, with the other 12 roles being given out to the other players.

...], in that both factions play active roles in selecting the game's [[Power Roles]]. During the [[Pregame]], the [[Mafia]] select one of the following roles to replace a random Goon's:

All the credit for the automatic sorting goes to [[Vi]], he made an amazing tem All info complete with instructions and examples can be found [[Template:Role|h

==Roles:== ...visiting somebody set all players covered in gasoline alight killing them all. This kill counts as a '''Fire-Kill'''.

...ell. The town has two roles to start, resulting in a maximum of five town roles randomly selected from the following: ...their abilities all town roles go out. This prevents claims of "received roles before/after mafia modifications".

...A Herring is treated as a [[power role]] for the purposes of investigative roles like Vanilla Cop, but is otherwise [[vanilla]]. ...so give incorrect results to [[Role Cop]]s or, alternatively, no result at all.

Several roles (most notably [[X-Shot]] on an otherwise [[passive]] role) can easily be in ...gets the targeter), rather than being able to be used normally. (Reflexive roles are sometimes named as a '''Water Carrier''', especially in [[Werewolf]] fl

...Mafia Goon is a [[vanilla]] member of the Mafia. This means that they have all the abilities that a Mafia member would normally possess, but no abilities ...a [[Vanilla Cop]], can be affected by [[Simple]] roles but not [[Complex]] roles, and so on.

==Roles:== ...yer is then fused. Once per game instead of fusing somebody he can blow up all fuse players. After that he looses his ability.

===Roles=== The following roles are used:

Each rule has priority over all that follow: 6. All possible role interactions must be thought through and fixed before the gam

...r abilities. An Enabler is linked to a specific role; if the Enabler dies, all players who have that role will lose it. ...[[self-aware]] (and knows which role they enable). When the Enabler dies, all players lose the role that they are linked to, e.g. the death of a [[Doctor

...f a [[Setup]] is the probability of each [[Alignment]] winning the game if all players were to play optimally. ...] or [[Investigative Roles|Investigation]] results). For setups with power roles, the exactly EV becomes increasingly difficult to determine, due to claimin

...may receive a default answer ("Not Guilty" or "No Result", for instance). Roles that have the possibility of returning No Result normally, such as [[Tracke Roles that work 0% of the time may also be called [[False]] Roles.

...ks at game balance and game design the same way. Some people consider some roles more [[Bastard]] than others. Sometimes people feel so strongly about a par ==Roles which may be considered bastard by many players==

*[[Killing roles|Kill]] ...eives the second ''n'' abilities, and so on; the moderator continues until all abilities have been exhausted.

...s every Night Action to itself. This includes the Mafia's kill as well as all investigations, protections, and so forth. ...ning Rod the designated Night 1 Mafia kill while rendering all other power roles worthless during Night 1.

*"X" starts as 4, and decreases with each shot spent by one of the power roles. *"Y" starts as 4, and decreases with each shot spent by one of the power roles.

After the setup phase, roles are randomized between the Townies and Mafia and then sent out. Then Day 1 Three or less slide ups indicate low power level. All Mafiosi are Goons. 1 Townie is a Tracker, a different Townie is an Informed

...the connotation that these games are "difficult" due to the lack of power roles helping Town. *You win when all members of the town have been eliminated or nothing can prevent this from o

...the Mod''', or '''Pseudo-Metagaming''', is the act of trying to infer the roles and mechanics in the game you are presently in based on attempts to recreat ...ts to design a "cookie cutter" setup - so this does not work very often at all.

50% of all setups generated will contain a Serial Killer. ...Cs, do not add any roles from the C list (exception: "T" list has a set of roles to be added if 0 Ts are generated). If you get three Cs, look at where it s

...example you can gamble your vote to gain another persons vote here are the roles == Roles ==

==Roles== The following roles are used:

...nate-Or-Lose, or [[ELo]]). However, in games with multiple kills or power roles that could command the next Day on their own, it could also refer to the la ...Serial Killers is to be the only faction alive; this is accomplished when all of the following are true:

Deathproof can be pierced by roles designed to pierce protection against kills, such as [[Juggernaut]]. ...n almost all cases, Deathproof is either [[X-Shot|One-Shot]] or a trait of roles that only loosely qualify as players (i.e. [[Tree Stump]]); it is very rare

==Roles:== *Death of all mafia isn't game over; town still tries to eliminate the condemner. <br>

...vestigative roles (usually [[Cop]]s) cannot be easily killed (or killed at all) by the Mafia, usually due to the presence of a [[Doctor]] or [[Bulletproof *Mafia-side roles that break the interdependence of the Cop and Doctor, such as [[Roleblocker

...of nights on which they can act. Typically this modifier is attached to [[roles]] as a method of weakening them, reducing the amount of times in a game the ...list of Nights, e.g. "Night 1", "Night 2", "Night 1,4", "Night 3,4,5" are all variants of Night Specific.

...y, most Townies have no reason to lie about their actions, motivations, or roles. Many newish Townies will attempt to lie in attempts to [[gambit]], and fa ...ic knowledge. Thus, rather than wind up on the receiving end of Eliminate All Liars, it is best not to try to gambit unless you fully understand the impl

...n [[Cop]] or [[Doctor]] roles are called '''reliabilities'''. Non-reliable roles are not [[self-aware]] of their reliability. Despite the name, multiple roles can have these reliabilities. The Cop is by far the most common investigati

==Roles== *All players except the Mentor are originally given Vanilla Town roles. The Mentee is given their role once they have been chosen.

...lized name for a nonincriminating result on a player. It is [[Normal]] for all [[Cop]] innocent results to mean [[Town]] with no exception. ...a]] family that returns innocent from investigations. As a result, it, and roles like it are not Normal.

...rately for the "general roles" and "extra-party roles", at the end all the roles should be put together. '''General Roles:'''

...y]] role in Town hands, since it is more likely to thwart or confuse power roles than help. The pro-Town intent of this role is to attempt to redirect the Many, but not all, moderators do not allow Bus Drivers to self-target (i.e. choose themselves

==Roles== * The cult can't kill at all.

Prior to the game, the moderator randomly selects three of the five following roles (without doubling up); *Once you have your final setup determined, randomise the roles and begin the game as usual.

'''If one of these fail, all of the following fail.''' 1. Roles interfering with targeting resolve in all parts.

==Roles I've Played== {{UNRolesPlayedRow|1|[[Jack of all trades]]}}

...up (the Mafia), one smaller scumgroup (the Aliens) and several independent roles (including Survivors, Condemners and Serial Killers). #Jack of all Trades (one Cop, one Roleblock, one Doctor)

==Roles== ...(Fire, Water or Earth) as well as a target. They will only protect against all kills using that element.

Psychiatrists are rarely seen at all, but where they do exist, they are pro-Town. ...trist converts a [[Serial Killer]] into a [[Vanilla Townie]], removing any roles that the [[Serial Killer]] used to have.

at any time. Some roles cannot destroy the You win if all the forces of Sauron are destroyed and the one ring is destroyed.

...roles or modifiers can be added, however, but they are considered separate roles that are part of the role name and need to be shown when the SK [[flip]]s. ...so show up as not having a gun to a [[Gunsmith]] investigation - note that all deaths should still have the same generic [[Kill Flavor]].

...more complicated than the relationship between [[Scum|Mafia]] [[:Category:Roles Main Page|Role]]s and that this complexity accounts entirely for the suspic ...a problem for [[Game Moderator]]s writing [[Theme Game]]s, as the players all know the motives of the characters, so long as they know the source materia

...game from setups containing unexpectedly swingy, bastard or unpredictable roles. Inspired by Sven's whining about Greatest Idea being run in Skype mafia. ===Possible Roles===

...and is meant as a more non-serious version of C9++ containing many of the roles often included in bastard games. *Elimination vote majority is 2/3 of all living players rounded down, Cult win majority is 1/2 plus 1.